Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College Library received from Sir John Mayhard "eight chests of books valued at 400 pounds". Among these naturally were many duplicates, and the Corporation promptly authorized the sale of "double books". Cotton Mather of the class of 1678, just out of College, keen to gather a collected of books which eventually exceeded in size and importance every other colonial library of the time, purchased 96 of these duplicates. Most of these books remained in the possession of his son, Samuel, and the latter's daughter, Hannah, well into the nineteenth century, when they passed into the possession of the American...
...Headmasters Association met for the 32nd time. Those present numbered 95, including: Mather A. Abbott of Lawrenceville, Huber G. Buehler of Hotchkiss, William M. Irvine of Mercersburg, Endicott Peabody of Groton, Lewis Perry of Exeter, Alfred E. Stearns of Andover, Horace D. Taft of Taft. They elected Charles L. Kirschner of the New Haven High School as their president...
Individuals in charge include Gari Melchers, Virginia; Herbert Adams, Herbert L. Pratt, New York; Frank J. Mather, Princeton; A. Kingsley Porter, Cambridge; Edward W. Redfield, Pennsylvania; Joseph H. Gest, Ohio; W. K. Bixby, Missouri; James Parmelee, Washington...
...Explorations in and near the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska," will be the subject of a talk by Professor K. F. Mather of the Geology Department at eight o'clock tonight in the Mineralogical Lecture Room of the University museum. Illustrations from photographs taken during 1923 will be used. The lecture is given under the auspices of the Geological Conference and is open to members of the University...
...William Mather Lewis' opportunity...